Abstract: A planter includes a wall and a rim formed at an open end portion of the wall. A set of holes is formed through the wall and is disposed on a surface beneath the rim. The surface beneath the rim includes a shape to obscure a view of the hole below the rim.

Abstract: A headlamp in an automobile, which is rotatable about a yaw axis when negotiating a bend, has a controller for controlling the rotary movement. In order to improve the illumination of a roadway lying in front of an automobile, the controller may take into account a driving profile.

Abstract: A structure for assembling a bulb holder with an outer shade, including an outer shade and a bulb holder. The outer shade is formed with a central through hole through which a hollow tube is passed. The hollow tube has an outer connecting section on which a locating member is disposed. The bulb holder includes a fixing seat and a base seat for connecting with a bulb. Several support posts axially extend from a circumference of the fixing seat. Each support post has a free end from which a stopper section radially extends. The fixing seat is formed with an inner connecting section with which the outer connecting section of the hollow tube is connected for locating the outer shade between the fixing seat and the locating member. The base seat has an open end distal from the fixing seat. A circumferential wall of the open end of the base seat is formed with multiple recesses in which the stopper sections of the fixing seat are inlaid and located.

Abstract: The subject invention comprises an adaptive front lighting system (“AFS”) utilizing at least one light emitting diode (“LED”) as a light source and a means for moving the LED to achieve AFS functionality. An exemplary embodiment of the subject invention comprises a plurality of LEDs positioned and located on a LED carrier. The LED carrier is mechanically connected to at least one actuator that causes the LED carrier and LEDs to move. A controller is used to cause the actuator to move the LEDs. In this manner, this exemplary embodiment adjusts the light beam and creates the desired light beam pattern. Other exemplary embodiments of the subject invention pivotally connect the LEDs to the lens and to each other and utilize the actuator and controller to adjust the light beam. Another exemplary embodiment positions the LEDs in a spherical surface and connects them to the actuator by an extension in order to adjust the light beam.

Abstract: An adapter for a decorative lighting fixture for recessed lighting is disclosed. The adapter includes a generally circular rim and a plurality of arms extending from the periphery of the rim into the center of the rim. The arms meet at a junction at the center of the rim. The rim is releasably secured to a ceiling surrounding the recessed lighting and a decorative lighting fixture or lens may be secured to the rim. The rim may be secured to the ceiling via screws. Likewise, the decorative lighting fixture may be secured to the rim by a bolt.

Abstract: A fixture for a light that facilitates the mounting of a cover to a base of the light fixture. The base of the fixture includes at least one frictional spring member, which can lock the cover onto the base. The frictional spring members can provide adequate force to securely lock the cover onto the base of the fixture, yet allow for easy removal and re-installation of the cover onto the base.

Abstract: Spring clips for holding lamp shades such as but not limited to fragile globe and funnel shapes, onto lamp fixtures include elongated types clips that connect to the stem beneath the socket of the lamp fixture. The longitudinal clips springably expand within the neck and lower interior expanding portion of the globe shade, securely holding the latter in place to the lamp fixture. The spring clips have great applicability to the light fixtures on ceiling fans offering a secure fastening system that prevents accidental dislodging of the fragile shade when vibrations from the spinning fan occur. The spring clips allow the shades to be more easily put in place over the overhead type light fixtures as compared to the traditional method of using side screws to support and secure the shades. The clips can have hook or barb ends which prevent the accidental release of the shade from the fixture.

Abstract: A light fitting includes a containment member, a mounting bracket, a pair of socket members, and a lampshade body. The containment member includes an upper body with a bottom wall, and an annular portion that extends divergently from the bottom wall. The bracket member includes a middle portion that has an elongate middle portion for securing to the bottom wall, and a bottom wide surface and a top wide surface, and first and second end portion which are disposed at opposite sides of the middle portion. The first and second end portions are bent respectively to an acute angle relative to and towards the bottom wide surface of the middle portion along two parallel lines which incline with a predetermined angle relative to a perpendicular line that crosses a longitudinal direction of the middle portion so as to form first and second anchoring surfaces, respectively. The socket members are mounted on the anchoring surfaces to receive a pair of incandescent bulbs.

Abstract: An attachment ring for clamping a globe having a flanged neck to a lighting fixture. The attachment ring comprises an encircling member which is configured as a "C" in an open condition. The encircling member is L-shaped in cross section, the bottom of the "L" providing a ledge on which the flange of the flanged neck of the globe will come to rest. An actuator constricts the C-shaped encircling member until it is closed, thereby attaining configuration of an "O" in a closed condition. When moving to the closed condition, the encircling member frictionally engages a tubular member of the lighting fixture from the outside of the lighting fixture. Simultaneously, the ledge moves under the flange of the globe, so that the globe is constrained against falling downwardly. The actuator is operated by a manual lever, and includes a locking feature maintaining engagement of the globe.

Abstract: A lighting fitting for an incandescent lighting arrangement with a pair of incandescent bulbs, includes a lampshade body and a mounting bracket. The lampshade body is formed from molding plastics, and has an upper wall that defines a central through hole, and a skirt portion that extends downwardly and divergently from the periphery defining the upper wall. The mounting bracket includes an elongated middle portion which is formed with a mounting hole aligned with the through hole, and which has a distal wide surface and a proximate wide surface relative to the upper wall, and first and second end portions which are in line with and disposed at opposite ends of the middle portion. The first and second end portions are bent to an acute angle relative to and toward the distal wide surface of the middle portion along two parallel lines which incline at a predetermined angle relative to a vertical line that crosses a longitudinal direction of the middle portion so as to form first and second anchoring surfaces.

Abstract: Spring clips for holding lamp shades such as but not limited to fragile globe and funnel shapes, onto lamp fixtures include elongated types clips that connect to the stem beneath the socket of the lamp fixture. The longitudinal clips springably expand within the neck and lower interior expanding portion of the globe shade, securely holding the latter in place to the lamp fixture. The spring clips have great applicability to the light fixtures on ceiling fans offering a secure fastening system that prevents accidental dislodging of the fragile shade when vibrations from the spinning fan occur. The spring clips allow the shades to be more easily put in place over the overhead type light fixtures as compared to the traditional method of using side screws to support and secure the shades. The clips can have hook or barb ends which prevent the accidental release of the shade from the fixture.

Abstract: A pendent lamp structure includes a lamp housing, a top cap mounted on the top of the lamp housing, a threaded rod passing through the bottom of the lamp housing, a connecting bracket secured on the top end of the threaded rod, a bulb base secured on the connecting bracket, a plurality of bulbs mounted on the bulb base, a hanging rod having a bottom end passing through the connecting racket, a fixed head secured on the top end of the hanging rod and passing through the top cap, and a hanging ring secured on the fixed head and protruding outward from the top cap.

Abstract: A bell-shaped Christmas tree light cover system is provided including a plurality of cylindrical bulb sockets electrically connected to and spacedly coupled along a wire which is coupleable to a power source. Each socket has an aperture formed in an end thereof opposite the wire for releasably receiving a small bulb therein and illuminating the same. A plurality of bell shaped housings are provided each constructed from a transparent material and having a circular aperture formed in an apex thereof for removably receiving one of the bulb sockets. Finally, mounting mechanisms for precluding the removal of the sockets from the respective housings are included.

Abstract: An alternative lighting system luminaire to conventional high intensity discharge light fixtures such as mercury vapor, metal halide, high pressure sodium lighting fixtures includes a concave translucent reflector/refractor or a concave, opaque reflector with a starburst pattern of fluorescent lights to provide both greater lumen production per watt. This system allows one-for-one fixture replacement when substituted for 400 watt metal halide and 1000 watt mercury vapor high intensity discharge lighting fixtures in design or replacement applications. The luminaire utilizes very high efficiency "Dulux L" high lumen compact fluorescent lamps, which each are shaped like a single inverted "U" and are a minimum of 16 inches long. The lamps extend from the base of the refractor or the reflector in a starburst pattern, wherein the lamps extend both downward and outward.

Abstract: A modular low voltage power distribution and lighting system that contains a series of components that allow easy installation by means of these compatible modular components to provide low voltage power, less than 30 volts, throughout a given space. The system is based on the use of one or more transformers providing electrical power to one or more electrical circuits running through a series of compatible tubular fixture housings, and related components, to a series of female receptacles located at predetermined locations along the outside surface of the tubular fixture housing. The system may incorporate one or more lampholder devices that attach to the tubular fixture housing and obtain low voltage power from any of the female receptacles. The lampholders contain a series of rings that retain the lamp and accessories by means of flat rings held under pressure in slotted plates between the arms of the lampholder frame.

Abstract: A light fixture for mounting at the bottom of a switch housing of a ceiling fan which has an opening therein. The fixture comprises a top member and a contractible and expansible locking member secured in the top member of the fixture and extending upwardly therefrom. The locking member is adapted to contract for insertion of the member through the opening in the bottom of the housing and expand for locking the member to the housing. Also disclosed is means for retarding the transmission of noise and vibrations from the switch housing to the light fixture thereby preventing damage to the components of the light fixture and extending the life of a light bulb in the fixture.

Abstract: A polycarbonate orientable refractor for a luminaire comprises a mounting ring which has a collar portion fitting a neck portion of the refractor with matching diameters. A diametric interference is provided between a groove in one part and a mating ridge in the other part to an extent allowing a snap fit. Shallow interfering ribs and valleys in the mating surfaces controllably lock the parts together while allowing angular indexing for orienting the light distribution pattern of the refractor.

Abstract: The specification discloses a light fixture globe connector in which a resilient clip is used to connect and support the globe. The connector is especially adapted for use with an overhead fan light fixture since it resists accidental release of the globe due to vibration. An extending piece carries the light socket, the clip, and a slidably mounted cup which encompasses and restrains the clip. The clip has a plurality of resilient arms terminating in recurved portions which are held in engagement with the globe by the cup. The resilient, recurved arm portions are biased against the containing cup by the globe, preferably engaging a lip on the cup's rim, preventing the cup from sliding on the extending piece.

Abstract: A combined shade and socket holder for being mounted at the end portion of a tubular member and for use in supporting an electrical socket having an opening through a back wall of the socket and for use in supporting a shade, including, a generally cup-shaped housing formed with a closed end portion, an open end portion and an intermediate connecting central portion, the closed end portion including an outwardly extending tubular portion having an unthreaded interior surface for receiving the end portion of the tubular member and a stop surface within the tubular portion for limiting the extension of the end portion of the tubular member within the tubular portion, the closed end portion additionally including light locking members adjacent the tubular portion for locking the end portion of the tubular member within the tubular portion, the central portion for receiving the electrical socket to have the back wall of the electrical socket positioned adjacent the interior surface of the closed end portion and w